The problem we have is that people, and by people I mean coaches at our club, think a bloke like Warnock(206cm) getting 40 taps makes him a footballer. He is a footballers ar5ehole.
And Casboult at 200cm x 105kg marking uncontested on the wing and being bumped off the ball by 180cm midfielders is a good result!
We spend more time stopping players from other clubs, who are mostly nobodies against teams like Geelong or Sydney, than we do letting blokes like Murphy and Gibbs run free. Being a tagger does not make you a footballer and our coaches are nothing more than a bunch of stats nerds and bootlickers!
No effort mate. No Chase. No Desire. No Tackle. No nothing.
Game plan doesn't matter if you can't do the basics.
Don't agree, the game plan gives players confidence and motivation. If you cannot sell the game plan to the players you have lost before you start!
MM will tell us they were not good enough, that it was not him or the game plan, but the truth is before the injuries hit Ratten was getting more out of this list!
Opposition clubs have had 20 years to study MMs game plan, he is a one trick pony and they know his trick in detail!
One team is told to chip up the boundary and wonders why we get carved up back through the middle.
Old gameplan, old school coaching, same old blues.
Paganesque.
This was the concern for me, the game looked to be passing MM by before he came to us. I gave him some benefit of the doubt, but today proves it has past him by!
Port are likely to smash us today, for them it is either keep winning or go and work in a SA sausage factory! They understand desperate, they understand all or nothing, they understand there may be no second chances!
Our guys give me the impression they think if it doesn't work out a nice spa and bottle of bubbly will make it all better!
The minute MM said "We Owned Eighth" we were forked!
I have never seen a club get so far ahead of itself, we did it before we played the Scum, and we are doing it again!
Too many top draft picks, too many fat heads!
Brisbane ahead of Geelong by two goals right at this moment!
What you say is spot on, I dont know how else to put this but for so many reasons, this current side (after this years performance) disgusts me.
Everybody blamed Ratten last year after Sticks issued that finals expectation statement, this year MM said the same thing, yet the season indicates we are far from it.
Retrospectively Ratten wasn't the problem, MM has caught the disease and the problem still persists.
We are not serious as an AFL concern. We are just a club that is fully influenced by it rich supporters who use us as their weekend hobby. A team full of downhill skiers, private trainers, professional dinner guests and fashion accessories.
Until we find a few blokes who think winning is the only thing keeping the food on their plate we are forked!
